“Eftychia” means “happiness”: Finding Closure [English voice over] | Sunday 23 July 2023

Linda Carol Trotter grew up in San Antonio, Texas, adopted by loving American parents. She had always known she was adopted from Greece; she was told she was born premature, and that her birth mother had died during delivery. In 2017, her quest to find more about her roots led her to a remote village called Stranoma. As it turned out, the entire village knew about her existence and there, she met someone that needed closure as well.

Interviewee: Linda Carol Trotter
Interview by: Sofia Papaioannou
Producer: Charis Pagonidou
Sound Designer: Dimitris Patsaros
Sound Editor: Spyros Lymperopoulos
Photos: Linda Carol Trotter

Istorima is the bigest project of recording and preserving oral histories of Greece. Over 1,000 young researchers find narrators, listen, collect and save stories of people from all over Greece : Stories of their place, stories of love, stories that changed us or defined us, stories modern or old. Stories that are not recorded in the history books and that could be lost in time. Istorima is the co-creation of the journalist Sofia Papaioannou and the historian Katherine Fleming and is implemented with a founding donation from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of his Youth Reboot and Empowerment initiative (learn more at  www.snf.org). The more than 20,000 stories are being published in their entirety in stages at www.archive.istorima.org. Excerpts of the stories are published in the form of podcasts, videos or written stories at www.istorima.org